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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Ivan Turgenev

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Childhood Cultivation Life Ourselves Past Personality Task
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Feeling Life Moments Pass Point
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Goal Memories Myself Point Remember Road
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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Goal Memories Myself Worth
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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Body Condition Feeling Himself Love Permission Possession Sick Soul Willing
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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Aware Forever Moments Obligation Spiritual

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

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